The announcement followed a discussion on Thursday (December 12) between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP national president JP Nadda, sources revealed.
A total of 19 BJP ministers, 11 from Shiv Sena, and 9 from NCP took their oath of office today. The ceremony, held at Raj Bhavan in Nagpur, was officiated by Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan.
The ministers gathered in Nagpur on Sunday (December 15) for the oath ceremony where seven new ministers will take oath, with five coming back for another term. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis received a warm reception from BJP workers and citizens upon arriving in Nagpur, his hometown, to celebrate the Mahayuti’s victory. He also offered flowers to Babasaheb Ambedkar ahead of the expansion of the Cabinet.
Take a look at the party-wise full list of ministers
BJP | Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) | NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) |
Chandrashekhar Bawankule | Gulabrao Patil | Hasan Mushrif |
Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil | Dadaji Dagadu Bhuse | Dhananjay Munde |
Chandrakant Patil | Sanjay Rathod | Dattatray Bharne |
Girish Mahajan | Uday Samant | Aditi Tatkare |
Ganesh Naik | Shambhuraj Desai | Manikrao Kokate |
Mangalprabhat Lodha | Sanjay Shirsat | Narhari Zirwal |
Jaykumar Rawal | Pratap Sarnaik | Makrand Jadhav-Patil |
Pankaja Munde | Bharat Gogawale | Babasaheb Patil |
Atul Save | Prakash Abitkar | Indranil Naik |
Ashok Uike | Ashish Jaiswal | |
Ashish Shelar | Yogesh Kadam | |
Shivendrasinh Bhosale | ||
Jaykumar Gore | ||
Sanjay Savkare | ||
Nitesh Rane | ||
Akash Fundkar | ||
Madhuri Misal | ||
Pankaj Bhoyar | ||
Meghana Bordikar |
The Mahayuti alliance won 235 seats in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections, with BJP as the single-largest party at 132 seats and Shiv Sena and NCP at 57 and 41 seats, respectively. Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as the Chief Minister on December 5, while Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar took oath as his deputies
(Edited by : Priyanka Deshpande)